Why Should Huckleberry Finn Be Afraid Of Teaching

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Teachers should not be afraid of teaching Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, teachers should embrace it. The teachers who neglect Huckleberry Finn argue that reviewing such racist book would create a bad impression the children, but, we see through Huck and Julian’s mother that students don’t accept every teaching. Also, the book accurately displays the time period, so Huckleberry Finn can be an effective tool when teaching about 18th century America; the book displays the dialect of America's pre-Civil War and the uncomfortable tension between whites and

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